Sullivan injects Fairbanks Memorial Hospital into partisan politics

HOSPITAL CAMPAIGN: The tiny print on some new ads for Sen. Dan Sullivan featuring numerous shots of Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, says that Steve Frank is not speaking for the hospital foundation when he speaks about the hospital. But most people won’t read or notice the fine print.

Frank is the treasurer of the Fairbanks Community Hospital Foundation and a loyal Sullivan supporter. Injecting the hospital into the Sullivan campaign is a mistake.

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Tammie Wilson's trio avoid mentioning her misleading attacks on incumbents

If you missed the municipal candidate Q&A sessions Friday, KUAC has posted them on its website. You can listen to them here.

This is one of the best chances for voters to become more informed about the candidates and what they would like to do if they are elected on Tuesday October 6.

This is a real public service by the League of Women Voters, KUAC and the Daily News-Miner. It should be an example for public radio stations elsewhere and for Alaska Public Media to follow.

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Dunleavy, shadow AG need to update the bogus financial disclosure ‘investigation’

There weren’t 91 flawed financial disclosure statements out of 121 examined. We have no idea what the right number is because the state claims were based on shoddy research conducted in a day-and-a-half that was never checked.

There is plenty time now to go back, contact candidates and “verify every apparent match,” which is what any competent researcher would do.

This sham has unfairly damaged the reputation of every professional within the Department of Law.

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Minnery’s political ministry claims to IRS that it does not do politics

If you want to know what exactly what Jesus wants from political candidates, just ask Jim Minnery, the Anchorage politician who long had a habit of signing his communiques with “In His Name.”

Waving a flag in one hand and a cross in the other, Minnery excels at denouncing the forces of evil—nearly all of them Democrats—and spreading his blessing on the forces of decency—nearly all of them Republicans—under Donald Trump.

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